How to Recognize an Adverb Clause?

by Meena
(Shrinagar)

How to recognize an adverb clause?


Answer:

An adverb clause can be recognized using the following criteria:

1) It starts with a conjunction.

2) It has a subject and a finite verb.

3) It answers any of these questions: Where? When? How? How often? How long? How likely? To what degree? Why? And so forth.

For example:
John bought that book because he liked the author.

In the above sentence, "because he liked the author" is an adverb clause.

We can see that it follows all criteria:

1) It starts with a conjunction ("because").

2) It has a subject ("he") and a finite verb ("liked").

3) It answers the question "why?".